Over the years, people have often asked me how they can contribute monetarily to the site and I generally would tell them to save their money and just buy more comics to fill out the database even better. I also get the occasional complaint about the ads on our site and how it would be much better i...

It checks to see if it already exists based on the variant name. There is already a variant called "Ross Variant" (http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=327957). If you tried to call it by the same name, it would say it already exists.

There shouldn't be any problems with the host - typically when we get a slowdown now it's because someone is hammering the site. If you can contact me when you notice it, I can usually ban their IP fairly quickly and it should get back to normal. The absolute best way to reach me is via Twitter (@co...